Hyderabad: Star Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth, who recently clinched a bronze at the Badminton World Championships, has moved a spot in the latest BWF Rankings. Praneeth is now at his career-best ranking of 11 while World Championship winner P. V. Sindhu has retained her 6th spot in the ranking.
Praneeth had reached the second round of the Denmark Open recently but suffered a straight-game defeat against world number 1 and two-time world champion Kento Momota.
His compatriot Kidambi Srikanth, however, has dropped a place to be at the 10th spot in the men's singles rankings.
Meanwhile, in the women's singles category, London Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal too has dropped a spot to be at the ninth place, while Rio Olympics silver medallist P.V. Sindhu remained static at sixth place.
Sindhu had earlier claimed her maiden World Championships title in August.
No other Indian features in the top 10 of the rankings in the men's doubles, women's doubles and the mixed doubles categories.
